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After looking at the side by side I noticed that the bottom strap on the shins was too low. I filled the holes and repainted. I figured while I was at it I could redo the buckle to the game style. As you can see, they stick out a bit more.. I painted them black as a base coat but I'm thinking about painting them dark gray. I bought some dark green straps, I figured why not. It wasn't that expensive and if I need to change them out later it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Honestly I like the look.

I found a fabric that I think match the straps pretty well. I tried to go with a solid color as the game doesn't have light and dark lines other than the shadows. I'm almost finished with the cummerbund and I'm working on covering the pouches. The shoulder connections are also pretty much done. I used wood and painted them a metallic gray color. I used velcro to attach them. Photo above shows them not fully painted because I cut them down some more.

I found a better alternative for what I have. Its still a little on the darker side but it's not as blue grey as what I already have. I can work off this as a base to build a new cummerbund and change the color of the pouches.

Understood. Do you think my cummerbund is too Dark? The reference photos appear to be a dirty ash grey. The trouble is I just did a quick search and then nylon webbing only comes in a dark gray/charcoal or a silver/light grey.

I have the shoulder connections pretty much put together. I'd like to open up the conversation to everyone though, especially @BikerScout007 and @ferra Other than the sholders, what else do I need to change? The boot straps? Looks like they are white or should they stay tan? With the top strap being a little thinker? Or the buckles for the boot straps. Should I make them larger and grey? What about my pouches on the cummerbund? Should I change them to grey as well? Is there more? Is there something I missed? I've been away so long I'm not sure of the actual position on different things.

Oh, I also repainted the other parts to match the tank.

It's been a little over a week since I started and I've made some great progress. Sanding and filling gaps and more resin and then more sanding. Primer, more patching. Sanding. Thanks to oneredstar for his model of the tan topper. I filled some lego pieces with resin and then sanded them down to a good size. I used wood and small pieces of plastic for the other greebles. After paint I did a little comparison. Very happy! I wanted more green this time and spottyer. Finally today I glued on the rest of the peices.

I found a place online that has free pepakura files for a scout costume, I scaled it up a bit and used the tank from that as a guide. I'm no stranger to pepakura so a little bit of improving to get the right shape was no problem. I laid it inside my original back and added paper around the frame. When I added resin and fiberglass cloth, the original back helped to keep its shape. Pep is a slow process but it will look great when it's done.

No, I'm still doing the officer. The comparison photos that I recently posted was before the dark green paint job and was intended to show the large tank.

Time for an update! I've been distracted working on a clone trooper crl but it's pretty much done and I can get back to work on this. Unfortunately, I was working on my helmet the other day trying to get it more like the reference photos, and I dripped it. It cracked into a few pieces. I decided to take the opportunity to order a new helmet from a 3d printer on etsy. From what I can tell it will look much better than my lame pepakura helmet. It will take a few weeks to a month before it comes in so in the meantime I wanted to work on my tank. My tank is ridiculously large in comparison.

So very sorry for the super long delay. I've been distracted working on a phase one clone. I'm still on the case. I'll be starting up again very soon.

I think my next task will be to try to replicate the sholder connections and painting the tank top details.

I did a test of the armor today. Its odd, I noticed in earlier photos that my hear or rather my neck looks like it sticks out really far, it try to avoid that look I ended up pushing my shoulders up and I think it really did the trick. What do you think? I'm looking forward to your feedback @ferra

Hey everyone! Sorry for the long pause. To be honest I was a little discouraged from the project and was close to giving up entirely. Luck recently I had a change of heart and thought the only way I will finish is if I paint the armor, then I'll be forced to make progress. I made a few small changes including making the dome smaller, which pushes the helmet up and my eyes down. But none of the other troopers can see eather so why not, its about looking cool right!?! I also thinned out the frame around the eyes because with the dark paint all around it, it really made it stand out and look too fat.

I think this is one of the best ones that i have for that. This photo makes it look like the chest and back come together in the standard back overlapping the front that we are used to.

I have to disagree. Everything that I have seen so far leads me to believe it is one color with a the straps as texture. I don't see any pouches that has the camo, or at camo that matches the armor like an episode 3 kashyyyk.

Great find. I saw this and forgot to add it to my helmet. Im think to just paint them in.

"CummerbundDark gray base with lighter gray vertical straps." It seems to me that the cummerbund is all dark gray. Also that the pouches look the same color of dark grey. Some even look to be the dark green but not some much the traditional camo. What do you think?

"GauntletsGauntlet section is same material as uniform.Rubber gray greeblies on gauntlets." Is this to say that the standard gloves will not work? I fear that will be a bit difficult to modify.

I can post what I have but I don't think it varies much for what you have.

I believe we discussed this in another thread, how can we tell if its a bug? I have at least two in game photos showing the white control panel.

Fantastic work! Thank you very much for doing this. I have a few details I was hoping you could change or maybe consider.

I thought at first as well that it's the lighting, but then I noticed the three photos (top) all the specialist compared to the others (bottom). As far as I'm concerned though, I'd be fine if we didn't add that detail to the CRL.

I got some new photos of the officer but before I post them I wanted to point out one thing I noticed really quick. The specialist seems to be the only one with dark green boot straps.

I think I'm going to do the officer with the upside down T on the chest. I've got a good buddy in my squad that is going to get some 360 screen shots for me. I'm not going to start painting the dark green until after a Veterans Day Parade troop we have coming up on the 10th of November. So we definitely have some time before then to decide what definitely needs to be included/ changed.